Based greater than 25 years in the past, Cisco Networking Academy continues to be one of many longest-standing IT skills-to-jobs packages of its variety, on the planet. However how can a 25-year-old program deal with at present’s digital expertise hiring traits?
Now, greater than ever, ‘disruption’ is on the high of thoughts for companies across the globe. A program comparable to Networking Academy, which was arrange at its basis to offer learners with essentially the most up-to-date and in-demand technical expertise, is well-placed to deal with the wants of the present and future world digital expertise market.
Change has all the time been on the core of the Networking Academy program’s choices.
A latest WEF Way forward for Jobs Report discovered that greater than 85 p.c of organizations surveyed stated that transformation of their group might be pushed by elevated adoption of latest and frontier applied sciences and broadening digital entry.
Networking Academy, by means of it’s intensive ecosystem of training companions and versatile studying choices, is coaching these change brokers, at present.
Concerning the Be the Bridge and Golden Bridge Awards
Cisco Networking Academy’s Be the Bridge Awards have been launched throughout Networking Academy’s first-ever digital World Companion Convention in Could 2021 (fiscal 2020) to acknowledge the exemplary efforts of Networking Academy companions who lead of their dedication to attaining pupil success. Each Be the Bridge Award winner has excelled in a number of of the next classes: Inclusive Futures, World Attain, Impacting Lives, Studying Innovation, and Partnerships.
Moreover, in every of Cisco Networking Academy’s geographic areas, a prestigious Golden Bridge Award is introduced to the person or establishment that confirmed distinctive dedication to prioritizing pupil success over the earlier 12 months.
The success of Cisco Networking Academy is powered by the dedication and keenness of people that work in direction of offering equitable entry to training for all. Our united goal stays the identical: to affect the lives of learners, educators, and communities by means of the facility of expertise, training, and profession alternatives.
It was my absolute pleasure to current nearly all of our Golden Bridge Award winners for 2023 in-person at varied Companion Conferences held from Could to June. Every Be the Bridge winner in every area acquired a certificates of feat, a trophy, and have been entered as finalists within the annual Golden Bridge Awards, with a possibility to rejoice their achievement by means of blogs and different social advertising supplies. As well as, Golden Bridge Award winners obtain a trophy and publicity on Cisco.com.
I’m thrilled to share the 5 Cisco Networking Academy Golden Bridge Award Winners for 2023.
2023 Golden Bridge Award winners
College of Data Know-how and Administration, Poland
This award acknowledges the excellent response and partnership to assist Ukrainian refugees in constructing their digital expertise and employability by means of the Begin IT academic program Cisco4Ukraine. College of Data Know-how and Administration’s (UITM) capability to scale at pace from 700 folks within the pilot part to five,000 new registrations with the official launch of this system on February 1, 2023, exhibits how the partnerships with Networking Academy are impacting lives. Thanks to everybody behind this initiative.
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On account of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022, tens of millions of Ukrainian civilians have been compelled to flee to different international locations, primarily to Poland. In line with figures from the UN refugee company, 90 p.c of those refugees have been girls and kids. Poles opened hearts and houses to host Ukrainian refugees and assist them to beat many challenges and set up a brand new life.
UITM relies in Rzeszów, a metropolis in southeastern Poland and near the Ukrainian border. As an academic establishment, UITM already had long-standing relations with Ukraine. And as a Cisco Networking Academy Assist Heart and Teacher Coaching Heart, UITM was properly skilled in growing and supply of academic tasks for several types of learners. With the Networking Academy partnership and a Cisco Basis coaching grant, UITM was in a position to remodel the preliminary humanitarian assist supplied to the refugees right into a extra programmable strategy, addressing the necessity to construct digital expertise, upskilling, and reskilling newcomers, and to open new alternatives for displaced Ukrainians. UITM began with a pilot program, hiring Ukrainian Networking Academy instructors to ship the programs, and adjusted the mission to the precise necessities of the Ukrainian refugees.
UITM used a variety of communication channels to succeed in the refugees, together with social media, PR actions, partnerships with native governments in Poland and Ukraine, and collaboration with non-government organizations that assist Ukrainian residents.
“To date, over 4,300 refugees from Ukraine have taken half in varied trainings. We count on the primary graduates of the total pathway in September 2023. They are going to then be supplied the chance to take part in superior coaching, which is able to final for the following few months. Meantime many learners full the brief programs and gather the digital badges supplied on the Abilities for All platform.
The employment course of may be very particular person and relies on many elements. Begin IT Cisco4Ukraine not solely provides a possibility to be taught new tech expertise, reskill, upskill, and put together for his or her first tech jobs but additionally empowers learners and creates a pipeline of expertise who wish to develop and obtain extra. We invite the course graduates to enroll in Cisco Expertise Bridge Matching Engine platform to entry the alternatives marketed by the Cisco ecosystem and we offer the sources to arrange for the recruitment processes and job market demand.
We’re proud that the Cisco Networking Academy neighborhood appreciated our dedication to supporting refugees from Ukraine. We really feel honored, however on the similar time, this distinction strengthens our motivation for additional motion. We’re very comfortable that the primary outcomes of this mission are already seen – though the coaching is ongoing and the total path of coaching has not been accomplished but, we observe that because of the Begin IT Cisco4Ukraine mission people are open to new alternatives and higher geared up with expertise crucial within the digital economic system. We imagine that granting this award to our college may also assist in the additional promotion of the mission and persuade new learners to affix our free coaching within the subject of cybersecurity and programming.”
~Lucjan Hajder, IT Director, UITM
Nationwide Data Know-how Growth Company, Nigeria
This award acknowledges Nationwide Data Know-how Growth Company’s (NITDA) partnership, beneath the Ministry Communications Know-how and Digital Economic system, in championing digital expertise implementation and digital literacy and expertise growth packages, with the goal of reaching a 95 p.c digital literacy degree within the Federal Authorities of Nigeria by 2030. Thanks to your ongoing dedication to the success of those initiatives. We might notably like to focus on your partnership with Cisco Networking Academy to coach over 2,000 college students in Cisco Licensed Networking Affiliate (CCNA) in direction of {industry} certification, and over 10,000 service suppliers in Cybersecurity. Your assist, engagement with Networking Academy instructors, and free web information for the scholars engaged within the coaching is positively impacting lives.
“It’s all the time a delight to obtain awards in recognition of our efforts as they encourage us to do extra. It gives the following degree of motivation which might have profound impacts on us and the society at giant. This award particularly serves as a confidence booster because it helps us monitor the success of our desired trajectory in making an attempt to realize a digital Nigeria. Not solely did receiving this award really feel gratifying by validating our efforts and the digital transformation agenda, additionally it is a sworn statement that we’re heading in the right direction in direction of remodeling Nigeria into a number one digital economic system, offering high quality life and financial prosperity for all.”
~Muhammad Kabir Salihu (MNSE, COREN), Deputy Director, IT Infrastructure Options Division, Data Options Division (ITIS), Nationwide Data Know-how Growth Company (NITDA)
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Fundación Omar Dengo, Costa Rica
The Fundación Omar Dengo (FOD) is credited with this well-deserved recognition by celebrating its affect by means of the Cisco Networking Academy program on younger folks and adults from totally different provinces of the nation. As a key accomplice of this system in Costa Rica, FOD demonstrates its excellence in its areas of efficiency, overcoming challenges and boundaries that they’ve encountered alongside the best way and creating their very own routes to success, in an progressive and autonomous means. As a part of its administration, the FOD collaborates within the creation of complementary content material designed particularly for its audiences, growing packages for the neighborhood and for the underserved.
In fiscal 2023, FOD receives the Golden Bridge Award for contributing to the acceleration of studying digital expertise within the native ecosystem by closing the digital divide and selling employability packages in matters comparable to programming, cybersecurity, networks and Web of Issues, amongst others. Congratulations to all concerned.
“The Omar Dengo Basis has promoted workforce growth for 35 years by means of academic proposals which might be based mostly on using new applied sciences. It’s an honor for us to obtain this award, which acknowledges the position we now have performed in closing digital gaps, primarily in selling employability packages in areas comparable to programming, cybersecurity, networks, and the Web of Issues.”
~Elena Carreras, Director, Innova Academic Growth, Fundación Omar Dengo
EdCreate Basis, India
This award acknowledges a big milestone for EdCreate of reaching greater than 100,000 college students in India, making EdCreate our largest Networking Academy accomplice in India. We’re in awe of what number of underserved communities EdCreate serves of their academic focus – as much as 70 or 80 p.c! We’re additionally excited to see employer partnerships in India efficiently inserting college students in IT corporations, to additional create profession alternatives for them.
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“The challenges to coach underserved college students in rural Indian areas are many and embody infrastructure within the faculties, lack of well-equipped laboratories, workshops, and lecture rooms, which hinders the efficient supply of any technical training program. Regulatory challenges comparable to compliance with regulatory frameworks, accreditation processes, and frequent coverage modifications may also be a problem for technical training establishments. Navigating these necessities whereas making certain high quality training turns into very demanding. We’re consistently juggling the standard of the school, {industry}/academia gaps, lack of analysis and innovation, entry and affordability, in addition to the agricultural/city divide.
After we started our partnership with Cisco, we underestimated the magnitude of affect Cisco Networking Academy program can usher in folks’s lives. There’s a profound impact on tens of millions of scholars and their households after we create a world-class, employable, digital workforce, far past what the people, themselves, had initially anticipated, too. The journey up to now has been very transformative.”
Because of Cisco India Workforce and the worldwide management for this continued assist and their perception in our work. We’re really honored and humbled to obtain the Golden Bridge Award for the second 12 months in a row. It’s a validation of the onerous work and dedication that went into growing our group as the biggest Cisco Networking Academy accomplice on the planet at present. Seeking to the long run, EdCreate Basis goals to develop in all Indian geographies, because it plans to “go world”. “With the assistance of our great group, tech adoption and our strategic alliances with a number of governments, we’ll scale quicker in our dedication to create a digital and employable workforce.”
~Manas Deep, co-founder, EdCreate Basis
Ivy Tech Neighborhood Faculty, Indiana, United States
Via the Ivy Tech’s Valparaiso campus Routing Switching Certificates program, Ivy Tech Neighborhood Faculty participates within the State Earn and Be taught (SEAL) Program. This ten-month program is part of the Indiana Division of Workforce Growth. It’s an industry-driven, high-quality profession pathway the place employers can develop and put together their future workforce. People can get hold of paid work expertise and obtain progressive wage will increase, classroom instruction, and a conveyable, nationally-recognized credential. SEAL packages are licensed by the State of Indiana. Candidates work in collaboration with employers to realize certification.
The Golden Bridge Award acknowledges Ivy Tech for offering college students with the talents wanted to work within the IT subject and the power to earn industry-recognized certifications. We’re additionally excited to see apprenticeship alternatives increasing with native enterprise neighborhood partnerships, impacting the lives of scholars and the organizations they may finally work for.
“Ivy Tech Neighborhood Faculty is honored to be a recipient of the Cisco Networking Academy Golden Bridge Award for 2023. Ivy Tech’s imaginative and prescient is that our college students will earn 50,000 high-quality credentials every year aligned with the wants of Indiana’s workforce and communities. Our partnership with Cisco and the Cisco Networking Academy is significant in reaching this imaginative and prescient and our dedication to our college students. This additionally aligns with one of many targets of the Cisco Networking Academy, to “present expertise coaching by means of robust public-private partnerships, high-quality curriculum, and inclusive workforce growth packages.”
~Ben Marrero – Cisco Academy Assist Heart, Interim Dean, College of IT, Valparaiso Campus
“Internships are essential to the coed’s studying course of and eventual success. Inside internships, classroom ideas out of the blue grow to be basic instruments of the commerce as you work together and be taught in an expert setting. Our Routing and Switching SEAL program provides our college students real-world experiences. Additionally, internships assist construct résumés and educate instrumental, career-developing qualities. Internships assist develop your professionalism and encourage character development and traits like integrity, dedication, and self-motivation, that are a number of traits realized by means of an internship.” says Mr. Marrero.
That is the primary Ivy Tech College of IT program to be credited by the Indiana SEAL program, with future plans to develop to different IT packages, comparable to Cybersecurity and Programming.
“I’ve been attending Ivy Tech for 3 years to acquire my Related Diploma in Community Infrastructure. All through my research, I’ve taken lots of the networking programs that Ivy Tech supplies by means of Cisco, and so they have all helped me get the present job I’ve. Essentially the most helpful course Ivy Tech has from Cisco was the Infrastructure Design – Logical and Bodily (SEAL program), it has helped me with my present job the place I’ve needed to construct labs and make my very own cables. I’ve stated to Ben Marrero a number of instances that I might be comfortable to take the category once more as a result of studying about fiber optic cabling and making these cables was enjoyable and fascinating to find out about.”
~Lawrence De Rozairo, Scholar at Ivy Tech Neighborhood Faculty
2023 Be the Bridge Award winners
Europe-CIS
Universidad Miguel Hernández, Spain
Center East and Africa
Division of Increased Training South Africa
African Superior Degree Telecommunications Institute, Kenya
Latin America
SENAI – SP, Brazil
Asia Pacific, Japan, and China
Electrical and Data Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada, India
United States and Canada
Montgomery County Neighborhood Faculty
Western Academy Assist and Coaching Heart
Earlier Be the Bridge Awards winners
2021 Cisco Networking Academy acknowledges high companions and instructors – Cisco Blogs
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